Top 5 Free React UI Libraries to Use in 2025

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

SurveyJS - JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor
Keep full control over the data you collect and tailor the form builder’s entire look and feel to your users’ needs. SurveyJS works with React, Angular, Vue 3, and is compatible with any backend or auth system. Learn more.
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Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video.
Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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  1. shadcn/ui

    A set of beautifully-designed, accessible components and a code distribution platform. Works with your favorite frameworks. Open Source. Open Code.

    shadcn/ui contains a set of beautifully designed and accessible components, and it works seamlessly with major React frameworks. It’s open-source and has amassed 85.5k (and counting) GitHub stars. It’s built on the shoulders of giants — Radix UI and Tailwind CSS, making it one of the best to work with. Unlike many other UI libraries, the components are not just installed as npm modules, they’re downloaded into your project. That gives you access to the source code and you can modify it if you want. I like this approach better because I can tweak aspects of a component if I want to.

  2. SurveyJS

    JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor. Keep full control over the data you collect and tailor the form builder’s entire look and feel to your users’ needs. SurveyJS works with React, Angular, Vue 3, and is compatible with any backend or auth system. Learn more.

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  3. Tailwind CSS

    A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

    shadcn/ui contains a set of beautifully designed and accessible components, and it works seamlessly with major React frameworks. It’s open-source and has amassed 85.5k (and counting) GitHub stars. It’s built on the shoulders of giants — Radix UI and Tailwind CSS, making it one of the best to work with. Unlike many other UI libraries, the components are not just installed as npm modules, they’re downloaded into your project. That gives you access to the source code and you can modify it if you want. I like this approach better because I can tweak aspects of a component if I want to.

  4. primitives

    Radix Primitives is an open-source UI component library for building high-quality, accessible design systems and web apps. Maintained by @workos.

    shadcn/ui contains a set of beautifully designed and accessible components, and it works seamlessly with major React frameworks. It’s open-source and has amassed 85.5k (and counting) GitHub stars. It’s built on the shoulders of giants — Radix UI and Tailwind CSS, making it one of the best to work with. Unlike many other UI libraries, the components are not just installed as npm modules, they’re downloaded into your project. That gives you access to the source code and you can modify it if you want. I like this approach better because I can tweak aspects of a component if I want to.

  5. mantine

    A fully featured React components library

    Mantine is a comprehensive component library with built-in React hooks to make development easy. With large community support, every aspect of Mantine is free and open source. Mantine stands out based on the following features:

  6. magicui

    UI Library for Design Engineers. Animated components and effects you can copy and paste into your apps. Free. Open Source.

    Magic UI: An animated components and effects library for React. Built on Tailwind CSS and Motion.

  7. Material UI

    Ready-to-use foundational React components, free forever. It includes Material UI, which implements Google's Material Design.

    MUI is the OG of UI component libraries. They’ve been at the top back since when Bootstrap was a contender and are still maintaining a top spot in the era of Tailwind and other UI libraries. With more than 95k GitHub stars (and counting), and top companies using it in production, I’d say this is the open-source React component library with the most stars. MUI also has paid components available for enterprise users.

  8. preline

    Preline UI is an open-source set of prebuilt UI components based on the utility-first Tailwind CSS framework.

    Open source (5k+ GitHub stars) and a growing community.

  9. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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